On 12Mar2017 12:24, steve <dl...@bluewin.ch> wrote:
Thanks for the answers.
As a matter of fact I tried in another mail directory (the mutt one) and
it works. Specifically I tried with Tim Ye, which has the same kind of
"First Name" <first.n...@example.com>
as what causes me a problem, and here no problem.
Ok, so the basics appear to work. THis suggests your actual example is special.
So it's a kind of a mystery right now for me.
For privacy reason, I cannot provide you with my other folder where the
problem arises.
Would you have any hints on how I could try to debug this problem ?
Construct a dummy message. Cut/paste the From: header which doesn't match into
it. See if the dummy message can be matched. If it can't, examine the From:
carefully.
I'm thinking here: maybe the name you're matching is _visually_ what you think,
but composed of other characters. This is harder to do in mail headers if
you're looking at them in their raw form, but perhaps your font works against
you.
You can compare what you type to match (eg "John") against such a header by
pasting both into something like "od -c" or "od -x". Example:
echo John | od -x
echo '<paste your From: line here>' | od -x
and see if the raw bytes are the same for the "John" part.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
